Clay Leeds wrote:
On Mar 24, 2006, at 6:45 AM, Ross Gardler wrote:

Clay Leeds wrote:

I think the problem is that I'm starting from blank documents and importing the Forrest-related styles, rather than starting from the Forrest documents. I'm going to see about modifying OpenOffice.org startup system, so new documents are based on Forrest's 'openoffice- writer.sxw'.


That sounds like a good solution. If you figure out how to do this then a patch for the docs would be welcome.


Editing Default Styles - NeoWiki (from the NeoOffice/J project)
http://neowiki.sixthcrusade.com/index.php/Editing_Default_Styles

The main problem I have with this solution, is that it now starts with a page full of Forrest stuff (it contains all the content of openoffice-writer.sxw, rather than just its styles.

Any ideas to improve this?

When the original plugin was created the intention was to use a template rather than a document. I remember there being a problem with this, but can't remember what it is - will be in the dev archives.

If the problem with tempaltes still exists you could create a "Forrest" blank document as your seed. You'll still have to do a "Save As" to give it your own name though.

Ross